Overview
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager Jobs in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex at ASSA ABLOY Group
Title: Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
Company: ASSA ABLOY Group
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
The FP&A Manager is a senior individual contributor responsible for driving financial planning, performance insight, and decision support across the business. This role requires strong business maturity, the ability to operate independently, and proven experience collaborating across functions and geographies.
This position is suited for experienced FP&A professionals who have operated through change, integration, or transformation environments. The role does not have direct reports and partners closely with senior business leaders and central FP&A and finance teams.
What Will Be Your Responsibilities
- Serve as a key FP&A partner to business leadership, providing clear financial insight and decision support.
- Demonstrate systems thinking with the ability to recognize patterns, interdependencies, and trends across complex financial and operational data.
- Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
- Own performance analysis versus plan, forecast, and prior periods; clearly articulate drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Prepare concise, executive-ready financial materials for leadership and business reviews.
- Collaborate with central FP&A and finance teams to align assumptions, methodologies, and reporting.
- Possess a solid foundational understanding of accounting principles and the ability to map and assess end-to-end financial processes, particularly within accounts receivable and billing.
- Support business and systems integration efforts, including financial process alignment, data consistency, and reporting standardization.
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to support scenario analysis, investment decisions, and strategic initiatives.
- Provide focused margin, pricing, cost, and profitability analysis to support commercial and operational decisions.
- Support the monthly close through variance analysis and business-focused commentary.
- Design and maintain management dashboards and performance reporting using Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools.
- Identify and drive targeted improvements in FP&A processes, reporting efficiency, and data quality.
- Deliver ad-hoc financial analyses to support strategic initiatives, growth opportunities, and operational improvements.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or related roles within a complex, matrixed organization.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and partner effectively without direct authority.
- Demonstrated professionalism, optimism, and maturity in high-visibility and high-pressure environments.
- Advanced Excel expertise, with the ability to build scalable, well-structured financial models.
- Hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar analytics and visualization platforms.
- Experience supporting integrations, transformations, or changes in systems, processes, or reporting structures.
- Experience working with ERP and financial systems (SAP preferred).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear business insights.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus.
- Willingness to travel 10–20%, including international travel.
